Lisa La Rose, LPC

Lisa La Rose is a Licensed Professional Counselor with two decades of clinical work in Colorado. She blends practical tools with a warm, down-to-earth manner to help people who feel stuck or overwhelmed. Lisa believes in meeting people where they are and building on their strengths to create manageable change.

She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling from the University of Colorado and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. She is also pursuing a PhD in Psychology at Northcentral University and teaches psychology classes at a community college. These roles keep her thinking about both research and real-world problems.

Lisa draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also uses acceptance and commitment strategies and attachment-informed perspectives when those approaches fit the problem. Her style is compassionate and straightforward, with a focus on practical steps clients can try between sessions.

Her experience includes work with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, grief, relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, career issues, and first responder stress. She helps people with body image, codependency, control issues, and other focused challenges as well.

Outside the office she spends time hiking, painting, reading, and playing with her dog, Luna. She describes therapy as a collaboration where the client is the expert on their life and the counselor offers tools and guidance to make change possible.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Lisa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, sleep problems, and habit change by breaking problems into concrete steps.

She also draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on noticing difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and clarifying what matters most. ACT can help with avoidance, painful feelings, and building a values-based life.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lisa will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and adapt methods to fit those needs. This happens together, with small experiments and tools chosen to match what a person wants to change.

Online sessions offer flexible ways to engage. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a shorter check-in when time is tight. Live chat or text-based messaging can work for frequent brief support, tracking progress, or practicing skills between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.